The sense that a man is serving a Higher than himself, with a service which will become ever more and more perfect freedom, evokes more profound, more humbling, more exalted emotions than any thing else in the world can do.… — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
The ground of all religion, that which makes it possible, is the relation in which the human soul stands to God. — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
They who seek religion for culture's sake are aesthetic, not religious, and will never gain that grace which religion adds to culture, because they… — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
We are not called on to believe this or that doctrine which may be proposed to us till we can do so from honest… — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
That image or rather that Person, so human, yet so entirely Divine, has a power to fill the imagination, to arrest the affections, to… — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
The main condition is that the spiritual ear should be open to overhear and patiently take in, and the will ready to obey that… — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no truer sign that a man is really advancing than that he is learning to forget himself, that he is losing… — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
Criticism is not religion, and by no process can it be substituted for it. It is not the critic's eye, but the child's heart,… — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation? — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
The sense that a man is serving a Higher than himself, with a service which will become ever more and more perfect freedom, evokes… — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
It is quite certain that, if from childhood men were to begin to follow the first intimations of conscience, honestly to obey them and… — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
Great men, great events, great epochs, it has been said, grow as we recede from them; and the rate at which they grow in… — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
The belief in a Divine education, open to each man and to all men, takes up into itself all that is true in the… — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
Not as men of science , not as critics , not as philosophers , but as little children , shall we enter into the kingdom of heaven . — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
Beauty comes, we scarce know how, as an emanation from sources deeper than itself. — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
